From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Toby Allsopp <toby@mi6.gen.nz>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; Crash in ediff-regions-linewise
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:05:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4pgtr01d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wstq5cr6.fsf@candyboy.here> (Toby Allsopp's message of "Sun\, 14 Oct 2007 21\:19\:57 +1300")
>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Allsopp <toby@mi6.gen.nz> writes:
> [I apologise if this is a duplicate message; my ISP bounced my first
> attempt.]
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> The crash occurred trying to print some Lisp data. Probably some data
>> is invalid -- but which data? Please look at the data to see what if
>> anything is invalid.
> It appears that Fmake_indirect_buffer creates a buffer object that is
> invalid in some way. This then fails a bufferp check and results in
> an error containing the invalid buffer object.
Can you try the patch below?
BTW recompiling with -DENABLE_CHECKING should catch these problems earlier
and with a more explicit failure.
Stefan
--- buffer.c 10 oct 2007 11:29:34 -0400 1.535
+++ buffer.c 14 oct 2007 15:03:35 -0400
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@
b = (struct buffer *) allocate_buffer ();
b->size = sizeof (struct buffer) / sizeof (EMACS_INT);
+ XSETPVECTYPE (b, PVEC_BUFFER);
if (XBUFFER (base_buffer)->base_buffer)
b->base_buffer = XBUFFER (base_buffer)->base_buffer;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-13 7:13 23.0.50; Crash in ediff-regions-linewise Toby Allsopp
2007-10-13 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 8:19 ` Toby Allsopp
2007-10-14 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-14 20:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-16 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 20:39 ` Toby Allsopp
2007-10-16 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-17 5:42 ` Toby Allsopp
2007-10-17 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <874pgu5bxh.fsf@candyboy.here>
2007-10-15 1:37 ` Richard Stallman
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